My wife uses Meta glasses because she's blind.
While I'm all for blocking those who film others without consent, this does prevent her from using assistive technology that is helpful for the vision impaired.
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@danyork if you've been acting long enough, you do remember the "Glassholes" when Google glass was originally unveiled back in 2013
@danyork there's a nice ISO 7010 P044
@feliks Very cool! Thanks for sharing that.
@danyork @feliks I assist someone who is fully blind. Last year het got hold of second hand Orcam (camera as glasses) system. It reads texts and describes objects and persons. But it is from Israel and how do we know it is not tracing and sending info to Israel?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0B5pW0xjd4
@danyork a small mole “no assholes” sign does the same thing
@danyork I run an app on my phone that sounds an alarm whenever meta glasses come near me.
@hans_zelf @danyork is there a similar app that finds and alerts of audio recorders nearby uploading the audio to some AI service?
@hans_zelf @Ecazar Interesting… I wonder if someone will start offering a scanning device that shops (and other locations) could start using. 🤔
I feel pity for the lost souls that have to take off their prescription meta ray bans at this shop, and are forced to blindstumble through the aisles trying to fingerguess what they're holding. "Errr... Excuse me, how much is this banana?" "Sir, this a sex shop not a grocery store."
@danyork i hope they make an exception for blind people that use these as ectr help with the be my eyes app
@danyork guess you missed the "no glassholes" movement back in 2014
https://hackaday.com/2014/06/05/fight-the-google-glass-cyborgs-with-glasshole-sh/
@ozone89 Oh, no… I very much remember all that. And this has the same kind of sense. The diff now is that it is increasingly harder to tell the glasses apart from regular ones, whereas the Google Glasses were extremely obvious!
@danyork This probably less about the privacy of their workers and more about preventing pricing research.
@danyork faraday cages for all!
@danyork Meta's owner will whine with his orange friend and the shops with such ban will be issued a cease and desist order all over the American Reich. Those abroad will face new tariffs.
At a local art and craft fair last year, I saw several signs that photos were not allowed. (Those of you who go to more events like this have probably seen a lot more of these signs...) I assume this was people trying to avoid having cheap copies of their creations mass produced. Not sure how effective that was for them, but Meta glasses can only be making the situation worse.
